netanyahu birth claim to want a deescalation but only provided there is a halt in rocket fire from gaza and retired u.s. army colonel writes as washington still stand by israel no matter what. we have had a history in the united states governments. of unconditional support for the state of israel no matter what criminal acts it commits and so far the obama administration has been no different than any other administration i would ask what is israel trying to achieve here you have a population that's in a prison that has been under blockade for the last five years the israeli government is squeezing the people of gaza the united nations now says that by the year twenty twenty gaza will be unlivable the israeli attack on gaza it's not a war it's an attack there is really no defenses that the palestinians have they do have these rockets that they do fire and fortunately most of them don't hit any targets and all of the israeli government officials are saying that gaza needs to be reformatted as if it were if they've as if they were computer characters not human beings and of course we'll k